Packet D: Bonus 20
This country’s most prestigious award for new playwrights is named for the playwright who promoted modernist techniques in plays like Old Toys and Paper Balloon. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this country whose New Theatre movement railed against traditional styles of plays like kabuki and noh.
ANSWER: Japan
[10h] Kishida Award-winning playwright Toshiki Okada created a modern adaptation of this author’s play Friends. Hippie Boy is nearly hit by the title object in a play by this author from a trilogy that includes A Suitcase and The Cliff of Time.
ANSWER: Kobo Abe (The play is The Man who Turned into a Stick.)
[10m] Yoshiyuki Fukuda’s modernized jidaigeki play The Brave Records of the Sanada Clan was stylistically inspired by this 14th-century Japanese epic about the conflict between the Tara Clan and Minamoto clan.
ANSWER: The Tale of the Heike (“HAY-keh”) [or Heike Monogatari; accept The Tales of the Heike]
<JF, World Literature> | Packet D - UBC B, Oxford A, Waterloo B, CWRU A
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 50% | 25% |